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A note from the editor
This is the first program I edited in the Just the Facts Series. Within this program and it's two companions, The Nervous System and The Major Systems and Organs are various animations. I did some and Jeff Stone did the others. Jeff taught me how to use the program in a mere 16 hours. Proof on his part and my part that creative minds can do almost anything. Things they can't do, they can fake pretty well and no one knows the difference. I let Jeff have the harder animations because he was more experienced at the program which is After Effects by the way. When I started the class, Jeff asked the class, all two of us, if we knew photoshop. We both said, "Yes." So then Jeff says, "Well, After Effects is like Photoshop on steroids, especially if you have the Production Bundle." If you have this program and you can't do what you want to do it is because you don't know what you are doing. For example, the heavy storm scenes in the movie The Perfect Storm were shot on a sound stage and the environment, ocean waves, rain, clouds, and lightening all were created in After Effects. Certainly none of the animations in The Human Body are of that magnitude but with the knowledge of how that movie was created, I wasn't about to be defeated when I couldn't figure something out. We wanted the hand drawn heart to beat with an electrical pulse stimulating it. This was too hard for me so I gave it to Jeff. He kind of gave up on it I guess because it had vegas style ramp lights running down it and it wasn't moving at all. Again, I was not to be defeated. I saw what he had done with it and ran to my computer (as much as I could have run, it was like ten feet away), sat down and started over. Three hours later, it was done, Jeff was gone, and I was a little bit smarter than I was when I started. Now, three years later, I often think of making that animation even better but that would cost two hundred dollars easily. The subtle change doesn't justify the cost. Anyway, while The Human Body The Musculoskeletal System is a very good program, compare it to The Reformation which is also available here at Amazon, and you will see how my editing style has progressed.

John Rodgers
Cheif Editor
Full Circle Entertainment